Congrats to Cougars, Bears, Longhorns

While I’m sitting in the EverBank Field pressbox waiting for the start of the Texans-Jaguars game, I’m thinking about what a great three days of football we’ve had — beginning with victories by the University of Houston and the University of Texas and ending last night with a victory by those Fightin’ Baylor Bears!

I’d love to see the Cougars and Case Keenum playing Stanford and Andrew Luck in a BCS bowl game. What a shootout that would be between two Heisman Trophy candidates.

What a finish to the Longhorns’ victory over the Aggies. I’ve been watching them go at it since 1960, the first one I can remember, and I hate to see the Aggies go to the SEC. It just doesn’t seem right.

Now, I’m so proud of Baylor. To lose Robert Griffin III at halftime, to force Nick Florence out of his redshirt year to play the second half and engineer a 66-42 victory, well, wow! Griffin will return Saturday against the Longhorns in what should be a sold out Baylor Stadium, I will be there.

Baylor is 8-3 for the season, its best record since 1991. With a second consecutive victory over the Longhorns, I hope Art Briles gets some mention for national coach of the year based on what he’s done at Baylor — the impossible!

Okay, the Texans and Jaguars are on the field. This one is set up so heavily in the Texans’ favor, even with Matt Leinart starting for the first time since 2009, that maybe the Texans will come out flat after having two weeks off. They better not be looking ahead to next week when they return to Reliant Stadium against Atlanta, a much tougher test than these last five games.